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PostPosted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 3:46 pm 
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I use the below script to backup some info on my Red Hat 7.2 box and place it to a mounted dir on my Win2k box.

The files are named with the creation date at the start like this:

2002_1005_030000_docs.tar.gz

What I want to be able to do is get the script to check the folder with the backups in it and delete any previous copies that are older than x days.

How do I do this?

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#!/bin/bash
# archives important files
clear
DATE=`date +%Y_%m%d_%H%M%S`

BACKUP_DOCS_NAME=$DATE"_docs.tar.gz"
echo Operation begun at $DATE
DOCS_DIR="/home/server/documents/"

ARCHIVE_DEST_DIR=/home/qoc-s/backup/

echo Files will be stored in $ARCHIVE_DEST_DIR
echo ===============================
echo

echo "tarring and gziping the files to $ARCHIVE_DEST_DIR$BACKUP from $DOCS_DIR"
tar -czf $ARCHIVE_DEST_DIR$BACKUP_DOCS_NAME $DOCS_DIR


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 2:23 am 
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easiest way is to let find do all the work:

find /home/qoc-s/backup/ -name '20*' -mtime 7 -exec rm -rf {} \;

I think that's the right syntax...it should kill any file older than 7 days.

edit: for some reason it won't let me put a plus sign in my post. there should be a plus sign before the 7.


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